POPpers are back from POP 9/29-10/6 and made GREAT friends!Chat until next trip!! Part 3

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

i'm bacccckk!!


gotta catch up!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

No - not weird. I like this idea too. But Jim and I - I shouldnt even say Jim....

*I* need to stop spending money like it's burning a hole in my pocket!! I dont even have anything "substantial" to account for it. I just... I dont know.

The only thing about the RV thing is the camping-ish aspect about it. I dunno about that....

haahah!!! i know all about this! the camping would freak me out now! but i figure when i'm a bit older, i should be okay! esp. since i want everything inside the RV! haah! i want it to be one of those ones we can drive and then DH says we will have one car that we pull around to drive around wherever we stop. i can't wait!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

DMM, put us on your RV stop list!! You can use our restroom!!

Cat,I hope you feel better. Take the antibiotic. If you start taking it now, you will be better before you leave.

I love being with the kids when I sub. I always figured that the older I got (and the older Jul got) I would become more intolerant of kids, or more harsh. But it is the opposite. The older she and I get, the softer I get. Sometimes I sub with a best gal of mine with the 3 year olds. They are just the best thing ever. They are so funny. I adore it. I wish Jul would stay little forever. It hurts me so much to think of her growing up.

I wish we could have more. We can't. I thought about adoption. Too expensive plus we would do foreign adoption. Surrogacy is too expensive. I just have a really hard time thinking that I (hopefully) have so much more life to live and I would so love to fill some of it with another little one.

I just don't know what will become of me when Jul is grown. What am I supposed to do with myself? I want to be a SAHM forever.
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There was a thread on the comm. board awhile back about how many people turn from SAHM to just SAHspouses. It was interesting.

DH and i only wanted our one little one and when we found out we were PG with Gabriel we were terrrrrrrified! We had Autumns private school all picked out and we were ready, then BAM we had to double everything! hahaah!!

I would love to be pregnant again, i loved that part, but i just don't know about THREE kids!! i just like the pregnancy part! hahah!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Hey, I'm quoting myself!!

What gets me is not the kid side of it so much. It is the thought that I am not making a "real" recognized contribution. I do the same thing everyday. Laundry, vacuum, clean, cook. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
I just get stircrazy. I like getting the chance to be around people my age.
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YESSS!! same here! ALL ALL ALL ALL my friends are single and in that loving it stage! you knwo when you have a real career and you are doing what you love and living on your own and having your own money?? so they are all kind of thinking i am on my own little planet..we have a good time when we get together, it's just not the same. and i don't have ANY friends out here in Rockford, so my life is 100% my husband and my kids. we don't get along too well with his family and mine is alright...sooo we like to just stick together...sometimes i just want friends..

okay now that i sounded like a loser, i'm going to just move on

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

CAT!! i love that ring! sooo pretty!!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

DMM, being a travel agent would be fun. I just don't know what I will do. I picture myself having to go back to school. But I don't want to waste my potential on something just, you know. I don't know how I want to say it, plus I dont want to offend a million lurkers.

I want to be something that I can be proud of when I die. Cuckoo! I can't believe I am even typing it.

i think my dream has come and gone..i wanted to be a cruise director or a personal tour guide for families of means..

Now..i really couldn't see myself leaving my family for any length of time.

But i do know what you mean Jmom..now wierd at all. I love school, so that's why i would keep going back. I also thought of studying somethign that i could USE in everyday life..like Culinary arts or Fashion (so i could learn how to sew) stuff like that...DH wants me to do what makes me happy. sometimes i just want to be told what to do!!


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kind of along those same lines..who wears the PANTS in your relationships? MY DH is such an easygoing guy, i tell him what to do and he looks for that. I think that's why his SUPER MACHO italian dad hates me! haha!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Me and DBF (Steven) have been dating for 5 years and still no ring. We don't even live together. We still live with our families. The main thing holding us back is $$$. I just want something more from our relationship and to start our life together. Is that too much to ask???

ahhhh.. SOOO many times looking back we wish we would have waited to move in together and save the money!!! we moved in soo quick after meeting and dating that we were soooo broke soo much of the time. WE moved in with 4 other friends into a house and we had this tiny little room and he had NO taste and I had too much for our little room! haha! We ate LOTS of Ramen and LOTS of time was spent at the library (free entertainment) we didn't have a car and had to walk to work... and yet everytime we reminisce, we realize that those were some of the happiest times we ever had.

Anyone realize that saying:

THE MORE YOU HAVE THE MORE YOU WANT

how true it is??

We had nothing and we're soo happy!! we bought a car and then we explored more stuff..the mall...the movies..restuarants...all that...and there went the money! THEN DH got a waay better job and has been getting promoted constantly that we moved out on our own and then we moved to a 'better' place and so on and so on...
i want the simplicity back

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

alright i bored everyone to death
coooomeeee baaackkk......

 

[julsmom]

still here....give me one sec.

 

[scrappinmom]

OMG I love you guys! Seriously...I have been having a really crappy couple of weeks....just busy with the auction, more work than I can handle.

Today in the mail I got my Charms from DMM - THEY ARE PERFECT! I can't wait to give Casey hers!!!!! Mine is already in my phone! & since the stinking thing won't stop ringing, I get to look at it often!

AND a surpirse package from julsmom! Thank you so much Jennifer! (I could use a break to read the book!) She sent me a bday gift! how cool is that???? A Mickey bean bag (although Grace thinks it should be hers...she wanted to know why my friends were giving me toys for little girls - and a GREAT huge Mickey coffee mug!!!! I love coffee & I love Mickey! I cannot tell you what perfect timing that was!!!!

I decided today that I needed to take care of me before I exploded. So Thursday I'm getting my hair cut (way overdue) Friday I'm getting a hot stone massage, and then Friday I leave for my scrap weekend. Yes I'll still have a lot of auction work to do when I get back, but maybe I'll come home recharged!!!

off to try to catch up a bit.

Thank you both SOOOO much!

 

[julsmom]

Right, I want someone to tell me what to be. But I want to like it.

I guess I wear the pants. Sean is way too easy going. Sometimes it is so annoying. His family drives me insane, and that is sometimes where he can seem too easygoing for me.

I keep everything together, I keep everything moving, I make our life a "life". But he funds it. I don't mean that bad though. I love him so much. We have been married a little over 10 years and I still like him.

 

[julsmom]

ahhhh.. SOOO many times looking back we wish we would have waited to move in together and save the money!!! we moved in soo quick after meeting and dating that we were soooo broke soo much of the time. WE moved in with 4 other friends into a house and we had this tiny little room and he had NO taste and I had too much for our little room! haha! We ate LOTS of Ramen and LOTS of time was spent at the library (free entertainment) we didn't have a car and had to walk to work... and yet everytime we reminisce, we realize that those were some of the happiest times we ever had.

Anyone realize that saying:

THE MORE YOU HAVE THE MORE YOU WANT

how true it is??

We had nothing and we're soo happy!! we bought a car and then we explored more stuff..the mall...the movies..restuarants...all that...and there went the money! THEN DH got a waay better job and has been getting promoted constantly that we moved out on our own and then we moved to a 'better' place and so on and so on...
i want the simplicity back

We married 6 mos. after we started dating. Everyone knew we were crazy but it worked. He was in the air force then. We had a crappy apt. with an air mattress. Oh, and a tv. We ate chicken noodle soup and bologna sandwiches all the time. I got so sick of eating soup and sandwiches.

 

[julsmom]

OMG I love you guys! Seriously...I have been having a really crappy couple of weeks....just busy with the auction, more work than I can handle.

Today in the mail I got my Charms from DMM - THEY ARE PERFECT! I can't wait to give Casey hers!!!!! Mine is already in my phone! & since the stinking thing won't stop ringing, I get to look at it often!

AND a surpirse package from julsmom! Thank you so much Jennifer! (I could use a break to read the book!) She sent me a bday gift! how cool is that???? A Mickey bean bag (although Grace thinks it should be hers...she wanted to know why my friends were giving me toys for little girls - and a GREAT huge Mickey coffee mug!!!! I love coffee & I love Mickey! I cannot tell you what perfect timing that was!!!!

I decided today that I needed to take care of me before I exploded. So Thursday I'm getting my hair cut (way overdue) Friday I'm getting a hot stone massage, and then Friday I leave for my scrap weekend. Yes I'll still have a lot of auction work to do when I get back, but maybe I'll come home recharged!!!

off to try to catch up a bit.

Thank you both SOOOO much!

Happy Early Birthday!!! I thought yours was a little closer to my sister's so I sent it a little early. It sounds like you will have a great next couple of days!! I wish you could be on here a little more though! We miss you!
I haven't ever had a hot stone massage. Just a regular one. That sounds so nice. I don't like getting naked though. Last time I got a facial with it but I wasn't crazy about someone scrutinizing every one of my pores. Made me self conscious.

 

[julsmom]

alright i bored everyone to death
coooomeeee baaackkk......

Now where did YOU go??

 

[scrappinmom]

In your mind, you are in AK. Where are you at?

Me: On that bridge heading into Harambe. Don't know why. That is just what I picture.

Sidenote: Am I the only person who absolutely does not like Dinoland?

Hmm, in that little shop in Harambe...the one that sells the straw hats & other native stuff..we spend hours in there just looking...I love that place.

Nope, not a dino fan either. ESPECIALLY this last time those love bugs were awful there!!!!

 

[julsmom]

Cat, what are you doing?

I cannot believe you leave in 8 days!!! I am going to miss you so much while you are gone ! DMM and I are going to just practically be talking to each other.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Today in the mail I got my Charms from DMM - THEY ARE PERFECT! I can't wait to give Casey hers!!!!! Mine is already in my phone! & since the stinking thing won't stop ringing, I get to look at it often!

HAAHAHAH!!! OMG!! i cannot believe they FINALLY SHOWED UP!!! ohh i am sooo happy!!!! and i am soo glad you liked them!!!

 

[scrappinmom]

I used to be like that too...I've been going to Laurie for over 3 years now & she so awesome! I don't feel self conscious anymore.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

decided today that I needed to take care of me before I exploded. So Thursday I'm getting my hair cut (way overdue) Friday I'm getting a hot stone massage, and then Friday I leave for my scrap weekend. Yes I'll still have a lot of auction work to do when I get back, but maybe I'll come home recharged!!!

ahhh!! sounds fabulous!!!

 

[julsmom]

I was convinced that mug would break. I liked it when I saw it though.